Baboonery

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Baboonish behavior. countable, uncountable

    "You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood."

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"You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood."

Etymology

From Middle English babwynrie (“grotesque”). Equivalent to baboon + -ery.

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